I tied a text field to a database field. In a button's click handler, I set the backing DB field to 0 and do a Me.Requery, but the text field doesn't always change.
Isn't that what Me.Requery is for or did I get it all wrong?
@GeorgeMarian The button sends a change notification email. The text field is using conditional formatting based on this database bit field to show that the email has or has not been sent since the last change.
Totally counterproductive, serves only to antagonize Jeff and make him more stubborn. I think recent events show that is not the way to bring about change :)
I know this sounds evil, but does anyone know of a war dialer for asterisk? I have to keep waking up a coworker and hitting 'end call' and then 'redial' is getting old.
20k users can vote to delete answers with a score of -1 or lower (at any time, I believe), but the voting lacks a check to see if the answer is an accepted answer. IIRC, accepted answers have to be unaccepted before being deleted, even by mods, so such a delete vote should be disallowed completel...
@mmyers Hmm...interesting. So, why are you focusing on the SQL if the issue seems to be in the UI? (I don't have a particular cause in mind, but it seems that you may be looking at the wrong thing or going about it in the wrong way.)
@GeorgeMarian I am focusing on the UI. Sorry if I didn't make that clear. I expected Me.Requery to make sure that all form fields have the current data, but apparently it isn't. Is that the wrong method?
In the Stack Overflow JavaScript room, we wanted to add the feeds of the blogs of several prominent JavaScript developers. This is what we got:
This sucks. The format is totally unusable, there's no indication of which goes to what (the top link goes to the feed URL, the bottom link links to ...
@mmyers If only there were a place, perhaps on the Internet, where people could post technical questions and receive good answers quickly! (But seriously, have you tried SO/SU yet?)
Hmm. Just tried it again and discovered that it only fails if I update one particular field before trying the button. I suspect that field's afterupdate handler is causing the problem.
@mmyers It wouldn't be Access if there wasn't that smell of PFM. That said, closing the DB connection doesn't quite sound like the right solution. Then again, it's just Access.
The handler spawns a new ADO connection which wasn't getting closed. I'm not familiar with this stuff at all, so I have no idea what problems that could cause.
@TimStone Where did you find that? That's exactly what was happening; everything seemed dead for a bit, except that email button worked. So I sent a lot of emails in a row thinking that the button didn't work.
Now it's happening again, so I guess the connection wasn't the problem. Me.Repaint seems like it would just cover over the real issue, but how would I find the real issue?
Which is a shame, that would fix the annoying issue I have with my workflow for this client's site. (I have a local copy, and it keeps sending me to the my local copy when I mean to check the live site because of the full URL search thing. Well, that not noticing the "localhost" in the URL.)
Hmm. I'm pretty sure someone who used to sit near me had that as a ring tone. "Come back to Texas" sounds familiar.
I think I've got it this time. It appears there was a Me.Recordset.Update hidden in the middle of that afterupdate handler, which, as I read yesterday, is a bad idea.
@YiJiang Oooh, thank you that actually does seem like it may be the fix I want. Apparently, they have heard our cries, because I think the "restrict: typed" is new.
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I saw this post which has been locked for almost 2 years get bumped back into the main feed, and when I checked out the revision that bumped it, I see that this user has lots of little edits of 1 character which are just whitespace which are doing nothing but bumping things needlessly. Maybe he'...
Speaking of which, our Malicious Chat Users Ring hasn't implemented any plans to destroy Stack Overflow for, like, several whole hours. Shouldn't we get on that?
@drachenstern That's actually one of the reasons why I ran. I run into cruft on SO often, it's nice to be able to fix it.
That's <sub> one of the reasons </sub> why you'll never see me moderating SO, though. I already spend enough too much time flagging and editing; more commitment would probably be unhealthy.
The nominations for the next election should show how many mod flags that person has used, and what percentage were valid. That's way more useful than "I have X rep", "I've been on the site Y days", or "I have Z badges"
Though it turns out that Googling for Lord Torgamus (which is a reference to something, but is intentionally misspelled) is a great way to find SO clones.
MSO is more about human behavior issues -- I've said multiple times that I think of it as Stack Exchange SE -- and oh look, psych was one of my majors.
woohoo, 3.5 unlistened to podcasts ... Soon I'll be able to download all the other podcasts I haven't listed to yet that I haven't let myself download from OCDness...
granted, that's still a rather narrow set of all podcasts
@PopularDemand the first isn't to me, it is to him. the second cos everybody on MSO that has an alternate usually doesn't kill off the alternate, even if they do WELBOG it ...
@mootinator hello my good friend it does my eyes well to see your name :p
Meme: Changing your display name on a whim.
Originator: Welbog
Cultural Height: TBD
Official Response: Limited to one change every 30 days.
Background: User Welbog likes to change his profile whenever it will make a post of his seem funnier. Other times it seems to just be on a whim. He will also...
The question referred to turned into an extremely subjective and argumentative discussion, is not permitted on the site.
In more detail:
The problem with that question in particular is that the system they are currently implementing is not feature complete, therefore discussing whether the old ...
@TimPost I've never seen his homepage (or at least, I've never paid attention to it) ~ I love what he's done with the right sidebar. I'm gonna have to steal that at some point.
@PopularDemand !!! YES! 52! Oh the horror. I could imagine a sliding scale of 6 - 8
Yeah, I'm not much of one for spontaneous image editing so I don't see the merit in this one to begin with so while I applaud the script and think it's quite spiffy, I'm not a good tester for you.
I'd actually be thrilled if there was simply nothing to flag, but until that happens I'll continue clawing my way up to to the max (and beyond, in spirit).
This is a variation of this feature suggestion. It is much more difficult to implement, but is much more refined, as it allows the deletion of specific parts of a comment thread.
Many - but not all - conversations in comments lose their value after the conversation has been concluded - fixed...
@balpha yeah, I was about to report it. I used George's freehand circle user script on a GIF image. It seems to reproducibly choke on those (although I haven't tested with a JPG since, I'll do that later.)
We know Jeff and Joel use Stack Overflow (obviously), but what other "famous" developers or at least working on popular projects, or important blogs do you know of that are using Stack Overflow?
Define famous:
Book authors, popular project leaders/developers (think VCS, an IDE, a database engine...
can someone using chrome confirm to me that window["chat-body"] actually gives you a DOM element (any other object with an id works as well), and also confirm to me that this a WTF?
seems to not have been reported. writing a bug report right now
hmm
seems chrome is not the only browser doing that
<html>
<body id="a-b-c">
<div id="something"></div>
something has type <script>document.write(typeof something)</script><br>
window["a-b-c"] has type <script>document.write(typeof window["a-b-c"])</script><br>
window.hasOwnProperty("something") is <script>document.write(window.hasOwnProperty("something"))</script><br>
something === document.getElementById("something") is <script>document.write(something === document.getElementById("something"))</script><br>
</body>
</html>
firefox:
something has type object window["a-b-c"] has type undefined window.hasOwnProperty("something") is true something === document.getElementById("something") is true
IE8:
something has type object window["a-b-c"] has type object window.hasOwnProperty("something") is something === document.getElementById("something") is true
chrome:
something has type object window["a-b-c"] has type object window.hasOwnProperty("something") is false something === document.getElementById("something") is true
safari/opera:
something has type object window["a-b-c"] has type object window.hasOwnProperty("something") is true something === document.getElementById("something") is true
We decided to pull the graph, as it was not very useful, too complex, and increasingly out of date.
In the Stack Overflow JavaScript room, we wanted to add the feeds of the blogs of several prominent JavaScript developers. This is what we got:
This sucks. The format is totally unusable, there's no indication of which goes to what (the top link goes to the feed URL, the bottom link links to ...
The question referred to turned into an extremely subjective and argumentative discussion, is not permitted on the site.
In more detail:
The problem with that question in particular is that the system they are currently implementing is not feature complete, therefore discussing whether the old ...
This is a variation of this feature suggestion. It is much more difficult to implement, but is much more refined, as it allows the deletion of specific parts of a comment thread.
Many - but not all - conversations in comments lose their value after the conversation has been concluded - fixed...
